ESMO 2023 – Padcev hits its home run
The presidential session heralds a combo of Padcev and Keytruda as the new front-line bladder cancer standard of care.
ESMO 2023 – not so fast, Welireg
The Merck & Co drug's first successful phase 3 study might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
After failing to get Seagen Merck turns to Daiichi
In paying $5.5bn for immediate rights to three Daiichi Sankyo assets Merck & Co has made its biggest bet on ADCs to date.
ESMO 2023 – Perla gives Jemperli combos more backing
The numerical survival benefit versus Keytruda underperform’s Merck’s phase 3 study, but there’s a possible reason for that.
ESMO 2023 – some Tropion fears allayed
However, lack of meaningful efficacy in Tropion-Lung01 suggests that datopotamab deruxtecan might be restricted to a histology-defined NSCLC subgroup.
